Radium Girls - Stripmall Architecture

Your own eyelash

Dipped in Radium

Careful fingers painting in the lines

Cheerful glow to indicate the time

Undark

Splattered with light

Down to the waist

The brush sweeps, mind fleets

Still it won’t fade

It creeps in and in and never out

Now pretty girls glow underground

Tick tock — your hand on every wrist

And these sweet young girls

Were taught to trust

Lip tip, put fire in your cheek

It grows dim

Undark, undark, undark

Un-warned

Un-armed

Purposely uninformed

Girls who glow and can absorb the light

Unaware of catacombs inside

Make a small point

Keep the point tight

Focus your eyes

And draw the line